The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-08-11

1T CLOUD, 0lluu', august ~
Forest fires Are reported along It.
Cloud aud lIinckley hallway. Thou
sand, Of acres of heavy OAK timber
have been burned already or are
burning. The saw mill a. E-terbrook
burned O1ly heavy rains can stop the
lire.
SEWN INJURED NEN.
CoSCoRp, y. II August lQ-About
9 o'clock last night. fire broke out in
a ,argc four story wooden warehouse
on Railroad street aud RACED liercely
until nearly midnight. some mem.
bcrs OF the Third regiment were prac.
tiCiug in their room inthe fourth story
and when the men rushei to their
doors to escape the smoke and flames
drove them bgck. They then turned
TO the Windows from which some
iumped while others hun4 { . the win
dow iii, until flames compelled them
10 let 90 and drop to the street, dis
lance Of 80 feet. seven pcr,J ns are
more or lcss seriously hurt having
limbs broken and being burned
THREE DEAD IIREMEN.
Sr LOUIS, August TO- Fire was
discovered this morning ut 1880 this
morning IN the second story OF
BishopN spears peanut aud pecan
establishment, and before The lame
wore subducd the whole Fire De
ptrtmcu' was called out The firm
occupied the iOur-.tory iron front
building. NO. BIZ and 40. 5l5 Main
street. aud suffered u loss OF 100000
On stock The building owned by
1 .uG l'ft 81 a
loss OF $4,000. The ire started in the
basement from the rear, aud WA
quickly communicated to the rest OF
the building through tho elevator.
For time the whole block was
Threatened as the danes lcaped
wildly acrOss the street. throwing out
An intense heat, which drove the
lircmcn from the front OF tho building
The firm had the largest peanut trade
in tho west, and was thoroughly
stocked tor the fall trade
Adjoining Bishop ~ Spear.
peanut warehouse, on the north is the
Alkirc grocery COmpanys place, the
walls of which, next TO the ware
house, were wrecked by the lire. The
iiremcn were still working on the
peanut lire at o'clock this morning
a hose truck stood in front of Bishop
n Spears RUNE which had stood all
night, and were still burning, the
wall being seemingly intact. There
were dozen men on the truck
About six men were on the ladder
aud on the windows of the unblrncd
building. 'Iook out cried two
Western MON lincmcu who were on
a telegraph pole III front of the
Alkilc grocery company. The word,
were scarcely out of their mouth,
when the wall OF tho grocery Quiy
cred aui fell into the ruins OF the
peanut warehouse. This removed
from The front wall of the warehouse
its principle support and IA an in
slant il and the unburncd portion Of
the building which it had kept in po
ston was in ruins burying the ire
men on the ladder aud on the win
dow beneath it. The iiremcu at the
foot Of The ladder escaped with only
slight iniWie,. Fircmcn Known &c
have been killed are:
Barney Mchcuan, acting assistant
chief
Frank dcDaniels.
Chris lloelb, foreman.
Inc injured are;
jacob Fe,dman
VIM. Zimmerman.
Mat before.
A b building owned by +. f. elias
Cow and occupied by llargad 4
Nick ittrick, dry goods dealers, rs Il
store house fell on account of pres
sure, Alkirc's loss Is $4,000,
LARGE LUMBER LOSES.
MrsKoGEE, Mich, August lO-Thc
MN fires in this city yesterday re-
suite d in loss of over . 10000 feet
Of in mbcr, owned by simpson, Fay
man 4 Co., Mcekly II Co. and
othe RS The total loses aggregate
near ly $4,000 ON which there Is taii
lUiu rance.
THE BURNING THUMB
ID TRoIr August lu-A gentleman
who travelled yesterday through the
DIrn ng Thumb of the Lower PENN
suia, says the meadow aud bush fire,
ara ycrvwhcre Acres of cut grair
aud miles Of fences were destroyed
Soy c raj barns and number OF cattl,
Gra rcpOrteQ burned in thu interior